A THIRD of the 2.4 million jobs being advertised on a European Commision website are based in Britain.

Last night there were 778,804 British situations vacant on the “Eures” site – more than in any other country in the European Economic Area.

It sparked fears of a fresh invasion of migrant workers, despite unemployment in the UK standing at more than two million.

Eures has become the go-to site for British employers looking for cheap hired help and for jobless migrants seeking to come to the UK.

Germany, the leading economy in Europe, is advertising only 400,000 opportunities.

Countries from where many migrants have come to Britain are advertising only a fraction. There were fewer than 5,000 vacancies in Romania, 3,000 in Bulgaria and just two in Croatia.

Ukip employment spokesman Jane Collins said: “It is staggering that we are turning a blind eye to jobs that could be done by the majority of the 2.3 million unemployed in the UK but instead are being advertised in countries thousands of miles away.

“With unemployment rising across the eurozone it stands to reason this will lead to a flood of migrant workers, making it harder and harder for our own unemployed workforce to get a job.”

Tory MP Douglas Carswell said: “These figures show it is nonsense to say that we can seriously control pan-EU migration. We simply cannot control who comes in here until we are outside the EU. We need to be able to decide who comes in.”

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We are turning a blind eye to jobs that could be done by the majority of the 2.3 million unemployed in the UK

Jane Collins, Ukip employment spokesman

Fellow Tory MP Peter Bone said: “The Daily Express speaks for the British people when it demands that the ­Government takes back control of our borders.” Eures was designed to “facilitate the free movement of work” across Europe, with member states legally obliged to register vacancies.

Yesterday the Daily Express contacted the website to ask why so many of the jobs being advertised were in Britain.

An operator said: “Is that a problem for you?” before adding: “The reason is a lot of employers from the UK have registered lately.”

Hundreds of thousands of migrants have already flooded the UK knowing that if they find work they can claim tax credits, housing benefit and child benefit.

Last month the Daily Express highlighted a Romanian family of 17 living in a three-bedroom house in Stanmore, north-west London, who receive £55,200 a year in taxpayer-funded benefits, while head of the household Mihai Toma, 47, has a job but earns just £1,800 a month as an electrician.

The Department for Work and Pensions said last night that next year vacancies will only be advertised on Eures where employers “explicitly request” a job to be offered across Europe.

He added: “We’ll give British businesses the choice of advertising their jobs only to British residents.”